Anonymous original period citrate photograph, ca. 1900, of the painter, cigarette dangling from his mouth, in front of his house at Giverny, with a hanging chicken suspended from an open window shudder. 3.45 x 3.45 inches (8.7 x 8.7 cm). Penciled numbers to verso with stamp remnant, some foxing to verso, in fine condition. 

A few steps away from his home at Giverny, Claude Monet had a chicken yard full of hens, and Fondation Claude Monet still keeps a few chickens in this corner of the garden.  The artist spent 43 years at his Giverny residence and some of his most famous paintings were of his garden in Giverny, famous for its rectangular Clos Normand, with archways of climbing plants entwined around colored shrubs, and the water garden, formed by a tributary to the Epte, with the Japanese bridge, the pond with the water lilies, the wisterias and the azaleas.